top 50% hacker news stories for today

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2

https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/artificial-analysis-intelligence-index-v4-2

2 hours ago

61 upvotes – 16 comments

Reversing MikroTik's Silent Patch: The RouterOS 7.23.4 Fix They Wouldn't Explain

https://npratley.net/reversing-mikrotiks-silent-patch-the-routeros-7-23-4-fix-they-wouldnt-explain/

3 hours ago

20 upvotes – 10 comments

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances

2 hours ago

★ 24 Nim
17 upvotes – 7 comments

Personal AI Router for Local Inference

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-on-rtx/personal-ai-router/

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 0 comments

Microsoft announces monthly hour usage limits for Xbox game pass

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/09/03/xbox-cloud-gaming-changes/

2 hours ago

5 upvotes – 2 comments

Ask HN: What is your biggest career regret?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571745

2 hours ago

5 upvotes – 3 comments

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

https://collusion.wiki/

15 hours ago

1 change
1511 upvotes – 1203 comments

Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year

http://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/

20 hours ago

1 change
530 upvotes – 233 comments

Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem

https://www.anthropic.com/research/formalizing-fermats-last-theorem

8 hours ago

1 change
516 upvotes – 325 comments

Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge

https://jestoph.com/2026/09/04/jane-street-challenge.html

16 hours ago

1 change
400 upvotes – 87 comments

Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search

https://productrise.app/blog/google-ai-mode-prefers-more-expensive-products

15 hours ago

370 upvotes – 72 comments

Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive

https://torrentfreak.com/adult-film-producer-unmasks-prolific-john-doe-torrent-pirate-as-meta-executive/

10 hours ago

359 upvotes – 212 comments

Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-85046

5 hours ago

282 upvotes – 158 comments

Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/technology/open-source-ai-anthropic-openai.html

11 hours ago

2 changes
274 upvotes – 253 comments

Shutting down our public encrypted DNS

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-public-encrypted-dns-servers-and-sponsoring-quad9-instead

8 hours ago

1 change
264 upvotes – 108 comments

Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer

https://opentrailpaper.com

9 hours ago

241 upvotes – 84 comments

IBM Bob

https://bob.ibm.com/

14 hours ago

233 upvotes – 270 comments

Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

https://news.gallup.com/poll/713933/record-high-say-government-corruption-widespread.aspx

5 hours ago

229 upvotes – 168 comments

Nobody is saying why OpenAI and Anthropic had outages

https://www.wired.com/story/nobody-is-saying-why-openai-and-anthropic-had-outages-today/

9 hours ago

2 changes
193 upvotes – 3 comments

How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/nearly-impossible-how-fairphone-built-the-ethical-repairable-fairphone-gen-6/

14 hours ago

1 change
186 upvotes – 175 comments

Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en

12 hours ago

1 change
181 upvotes – 127 comments

Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

https://www.statichost.eu/

6 hours ago

1 change
180 upvotes – 61 comments

Can AI design circuit boards yet?

https://eebench.org/blog/can-ai-design-circuit-boards-yet/

7 hours ago

180 upvotes – 116 comments

US Military disables ad trackers on troops' phones

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/military-disables-phone-ad-trackers

13 hours ago

177 upvotes – 91 comments

Top Pentagon Official Contracted Personal Lawyer to Handle Minerals Deal

https://prospect.org/2026/08/21/pentagon-minerals-deal-department-defense-cerberus-capital-alan-waldenberg-stephen-feinberg/

13 hours ago

145 upvotes – 71 comments

GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-6-astra

5 hours ago

137 upvotes – 73 comments

Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025)

https://gwern.net/xanadu

1 day ago

1 change
122 upvotes – 40 comments

The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite

https://blog.master.dev/react-now-rusted-all-the-way-out/

9 hours ago

117 upvotes – 22 comments

deSEC – Free Secure DNS

https://desec.io/

11 hours ago

116 upvotes – 41 comments

Ok, but does it scale?

https://spacetimedb.com/blog/how-does-spacetime-scale

14 hours ago

1 change
112 upvotes – 65 comments

'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres

http://www.ft.com/content/8252d574-ae2a-4403-9cf9-031295ba67f5

13 hours ago

100 upvotes – 184 comments

Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs

https://github.com/gioblu/NPC-Forge/blob/main/docs/development.md

18 hours ago

★ 79 Python AGPL-3.0
95 upvotes – 28 comments

Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools

https://www.agentconnect.md/blog/grep-beat-lsp-harness/

23 hours ago

95 upvotes – 66 comments

A mysterious kidney disease has arrived in Texas

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ckdu-kidney-disease-immigration/

1 day ago

1 change
93 upvotes – 84 comments

OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/openai-agents-hijacked-german-website-previously-undisclosed-ai-breakout-this-2026-09-04/

16 hours ago

93 upvotes – 2 comments

Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1118373109

13 hours ago

93 upvotes – 54 comments

“Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs

https://gmcgoldr.github.io/2026/09/04/llm-next-token-predictors.html

9 hours ago

2 changes
91 upvotes – 196 comments

O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

16 hours ago

91 upvotes – 98 comments

Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids

https://carbonawarepricing.com/

18 hours ago

85 upvotes – 76 comments

US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average

https://apnews.com/article/gas-diesel-prices-us-iran-war-ebd01b9773365ee40550dcfd7d3ebf87

16 hours ago

79 upvotes – 78 comments

Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch

https://rietta.com/blog/ruby-on-rails-cve-exploited-hours-after-patch/

7 hours ago

77 upvotes – 24 comments

Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4

https://github.com/anthropics/fermats-last-theorem

8 hours ago

★ 326 Lean Apache-2.0
72 upvotes – 15 comments

Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace

https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/2095897173376618881

9 hours ago

72 upvotes – 25 comments

1Password Replied to My Disappointment

https://nicolalosito.it/2026/09/03/1password-replied-to-my-disappointment/

1 day ago

71 upvotes – 124 comments

An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy

https://quad9.net/

6 hours ago

67 upvotes – 16 comments

Burnt out on a three-day week

https://jennywanger.com/articles/burnt-out-on-a-three-day-week/

12 hours ago

65 upvotes – 58 comments

Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region

https://github.com/hawshemi/lg-c5-webos25-region-change

14 hours ago

★ 12
64 upvotes – 64 comments

Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration

https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/project-hydrafusion-frontier-quality-via-multi-model-orchestration/

10 hours ago

63 upvotes – 29 comments

Amazon Achieves Enshitification Inception

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/cheating-at-fraud/#absentee-rentier

8 hours ago

56 upvotes – 11 comments
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